brewers, for mixing strong and table beer,
verdict 300_l._
Mark Morrell and another, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer,
20_l._ and costs.
Robert Jones and another, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer,
verdict 125_l._
Robert Stroad, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, 200_l._ and
costs.
William Cobbett, brewer, mixing strong and table beer, 100_l._ and
costs.
Thomas Richard Withers, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, 75_l._
and costs.
John Cowel, brewer, for mixing table beer with strong, 50_l._ and costs.
John Mitchell, brewer, for mixing table beer with strong, absconded.
George Lloyd and another, brewers, for mixing table beer with strong,
25_l._ and costs.
James Edmunds and another, brewers, for mixing table beer with strong,
for a long period, verdict 600_l._
John Hoffman, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, and using
molasses, 130_l._ and costs.
Samuel Langworth, brewer, for mixing strong with stale table beer,
10_l._ and costs.
Hannah Spencer, brewer, for mixing strong with stale table beer, verdict
150_l._
Joseph Smith and others, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer.
Philip George, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 200_l._
Joshua Row, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, verdict 400_l._
John Drew, jun. and another, for mixing strong beer with table, 50_l._
and costs.
John Cape, brewer, for mixing strong and table beer, 250_l._ and costs.
John Williams and another, brewers, for mixing strong and table beer,
verdict 200_l._
OLD, OR ENTIRE; AND NEW, OR MILD BEER.
It is necessary to state, that every publican has two sorts of beer sent
to him from the brewer; the one is called _mild_, which is beer sent out
fresh as it is brewed; the other is called _old_; that is, such as is
brewed on purpose for keeping, and which has been kept in store a
twelve-month or eighteen months. The origin of the beer called
_entire_, is thus related by the editor of the Picture of London:
"Before the year 1730, the malt liquors in general used in London were
ale, beer, and two-penny; and it was customary to call for a pint, or
tankard, of half-and-half, _i.e._ half of ale and half of beer, half of
ale and half of two-penny. In course of time it also became the practice
to call for a pint or tankard of _three-threads_, meaning a third of
ale, beer, and two-penny; and thus the publican had the trouble to go to
three casks, and turn
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